Rebuttal Witnesses Not Too Late

In plaintiffs’ defamation suit against a television station, a Norfolk U.S. District Court magistrate judge says plaintiffs may not belatedly designated certain persons as case-in-chief witnesses, but they may name two additional persons as rebuttal witnesses.
Plaintiffs allege defendants’ March 31, 2011 broadcast contained “false implications … that the plaintiffs had unlawfully converted or embezzled monetary ...